Finally what you've all been waiting for! A curated look into the head of the ringmaster, top dog at the funny farm, head honcho of the cave they let me...
May marks the end of the spring semester, the start of summer vacation, my birthday, and warmer weather in dreary cold New England. Ideally this time will be restful for my frayed nerves, and allow me the opportunity to get to all the things I've been wanting to do, but haven't thanks to an excessively busy semester. The list of projects and hobbies is more of a scroll than a sticky note... but…
I'm for the first time in about 7 years letting my hair grow out. I'm keeping the sides and back shaved down for now but the rest is already long enough to be in my eyes. Its annoying, but clips help keep it out of the way. When it gets long enough I'd like to teach myself how to braid it, like Legolas from LOTR! When I was young I wasn't really allowed to make decisions about my hair cuts. I…
I've been doing print making for years now and I really enjoy it. I'm always looking for new ways to incorporate it into my work. Recently I've tried engraving my photos into mirror, they look so cool! I want them to be set onto wood bases and have light shining through the engraving. Right now because of budget and what I have to work with the mirror surfacing is on acrylic that I cut down and…
Working for higher education right now in the US is a bad idea, I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who doesn't want to be stressed out of there mind, criminally under payed and lets not forget underappreciated. The clown show that is the federal government is trying with all its might to kill all forms of education, it's so much easier to control a population who doesn't understand what's actually…
How do you fit in your body, is it snug, loose, does it feel like your in it or above or below it? Is it something you notice ever? Sometimes I feel like I'm floating through my days, the time only passes when something is really truly happening. Like a special episode of the never ending series. I finally get to go on that trip, or at the very least, leave the usual rut I'm allowed to run in. But…
Getting the last word can be an art form if you work at it! Or at least that's what I like to tell myself. It's not too impressive on paper but it's a sweet feeling to be winning at petty improv with a miserable coworker or aggravating stranger. The best verbal chess matches are won with a single turn of phrase. Many may try to out wit me and many have succeeded but not everyone so the score board…
Longing and nostalgia are a distressing combination when where you want to go only exists in the past. This feeling became unbearable after I started reading All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. Set in the southwest of the US during the 1950s, his books are brutal, no one escapes his world without scars both mental and physical. The novels are full of the authors philosophy about life and the…
This is the start of something I've never tried before... Blogging... Ive been in and around online spaces for almost as long as the internet has been around. But I've never had much interest in documenting my day to day in any kind of public space. You wont find me on much social media, and I've fallen out of most online chat spaces. In this day and age of the shareholder friendly internet being…